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After starting the new year with a historic win over South Africa, the Indian cricket team is all set to hit the ground running once again. Team India will face Afghanistan in a three-match T20I series for the first time in the new year. For this, BCCI announced the Indian team on Sunday (January 07). Rohit Sharma will be the captain for the T20 series against Afghanistan from next week. Along with this, Virat Kohli also returned to the T20 team. It is noteworthy that these two star players will return to play in the shorter format after November 2022. The three-match T20 series between India and Afghanistan will begin from January 11. This will be the last international T20 series for Team India before the T20 World Cup 2024. Will Rohit and Virat return to T20 in such a situation? Questions arose. Both players have been away from the format since their World Cup semi-final defeat against England in November 2022. The question also arose as to who will get the captaincy between Hardik and Rohit. All this got an answer on Sunday. Proving all the speculations to be true, the selection committee gave both the veteran players a chance to come back into the team. Rohit and Virat have been away from this format for the past 14 months. Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav were not selected for this series as they are not yet fully fit. With this, the selectors entrusted the responsibility of captaincy to Rohit Sharma.
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But wicket keeper batsman Ishan Kishan did not get a place in this series. Earlier, Ishan was part of the T20 series during the tour of South Africa. However, due to mental exhaustion, he withdrew from the Test series and announced a break from cricket. The BCCI has not revealed whether Ishan is not yet available to return or whether the selectors have decided not to pick him. Along with him, middle order batsman Shreyas Iyer was also dropped from this series. He was part of the series against South Africa. Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammad Siraj have been rested from the series. It seems that they will be available for the Test series against England starting from January 25.
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🚨 NEWS 🚨#TeamIndia‘s squad for @IDFCFIRSTBank T20I series against Afghanistan announced 🔽
Rohit Sharma (C), S Gill, Y Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, W Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav,…
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 7, 2024
Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashaswi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Akshar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav. , Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh
India-Afghanistan T20 series
- 11 January- 1st T20, Mohali
- 14 January- Second T20, Indore
- January 17- 3rd T20, Bangalore
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